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"I Have Done Nothing But Teleport Bread for Three Days" is a line spoken by Soldier in 2014 Team Fortress 2 animated short "Expiration Date." The line gained popularity as a catchphrase, phrasal template and a subject of references in Team Fortress community, gaining wider recognition online in the late 2010s.

Origin

On June 17th, 2014, Team Fortress 2 animated short "Expiration Date" premiered on YouTube,^[1] gaining over 31 million views in seven years. In the short, characters Engineer and Medic discover that tumors appear in bread upon being teleported, with the bread becoming aggressive. Later, Medic and Engineer discover that Soldier has been teleporting bread for three days.

- So we are fine, as long as nobody teleports any bread!
- Question?
- What's your question, Soldier?
- I teleported bread.
- What?
- You told me to.
- How. Much.
- I have done nothing but teleport bread for three days.

Prior to the release of the short and June 18th, 2014, major Love & War Update, on June 11th, Team Fortress 2 received an update that allowed one of nine types of bread to randomly spawn upon using a teleporter (demonstration video shown below).^[2]

Spread

Immediately following the release of the video, the line "I have done nothing but teleport bread for three days" gained popularity within the Team Fortress 2 community. For example, on June 17th, Tumblr^[3] user holtarna replied "I have done nothing but reblog bread for the past three days" in response to a reblogged image of a loaf. The post received over 36,000 likes and reblogs in seven years (shown below, left). On June 18th, Redditor ThamosII posted an SFM image of Soldier teleporting bread which received over 1,600 upvotes in /r/tf2^[4] in six months (shown below, right).

The scene saw wider recognition online as a pop culture reference in the late 2010s. For example, on November 13th, 2020, iFunny^[5] user Ashrom made a Now Draw Her Giving Birth meme that referenced both "Expiration Date" and Murrlogic1's Wonder Bread Commissions (shown below, left). The post gained over 130 smiles in eight months and was widely circulated online. On July 1st, 2021, artist TheF1amethr0wer tweeted^[6] a This Is Where I Watched My Parents Die, Raphael meme that received over 3,700 retweets and 23,600 likes in three weeks (shown below, right).

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